mortified - Story 90745 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang just as Beatrice was about to put the finishing touches on her prize-winning pumpkin pie. “Hello?” she croaked. It was Mr. Henderson, her neighbor. “Beatrice, dear, the oak… it’s… well, it’s down.” Beatrice already knew. She’d seen it from her kitchen window. The massive tree lay across his property, and, alarmingly, across a portion of *her* newly renovated sunroom. Her grip tightened on the phone, knuckles white. Her carefully planned dinner party... ruined.

Emotion: mortified

Cluster: Embarrassment

PC1 (Valence): -1.36 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.79

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion mortified. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 mortified stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the mortified emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the mortified vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`l`	0.406
`尴尬`	0.257
`C`	0.252
`worse`	0.245
`逃`	0.242

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.340
`了他`	-0.218
`他对`	-0.203
`ል`	-0.194
`楽し`	-0.193